Civilian Casualties

Impact

مديرية الصومعة, Al Sawma'ah District, Al Bayda, Yemen

LOCATION

A US drone strike reportedly killed two alleged AQAP militants in Al Sawma’ah district, Bayda governorate, on the evening of April 7th 2017. There were no known associated reports of civilian harm. Several sources – for example Yemen Live News – reported that the alleged militants were killed while travelling on a motorbike in the

Summary

زفتا, Zifta, Nabatieh District, Lebanon

LOCATION

On September 23, 2024, civilian Ra’ef Shouman was killed in an alleged Israeli bombardment that hit the town of Zifta in Lebanon. News reports coming from the region described the “massive destruction” caused by strikes with several sharing videos showing damage to cars and streets. In one such post, an Al Jazeera video shows a “large

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

عفرين, Afrin, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Five civilians, including two children and a woman, were killed and up to 17 were injured in alleged YPG artillery strikes on a market in Afrin, north of Aleppo, on March 18th, 2020, according to local sources. Ibrahim Abu Al-Laith from the media office of the Syrian Civil Defence told Bawaba Aleppo that “five shells

Summary

(2 children3 men)

7–17

YPG

12 named, 2 families identified

قرية سيد علي وبلدة تل مالد قرب مدينة مارع شمال حلب, village of Sayyed Ali and town of Tal Mald, near the city of Marea, north of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

At around midday on Wednesday, March 6th, 2024, one woman was killed and up to four civilians, including a woman and three children, were reportedly injured by an alleged artillery strike by the Syrian Defence Forces (SDF) on civilian homes in the wider area of the city of Marea, including the village of Sayyed Ali

Summary

(1 woman)

1–4

YPG

near Buulo Fuulay, Bay, Somalia

LOCATION

Two civilians were killed in a US strike near Buulo Fuulay, according to a pro Al Shabaab outlet. Somali Memo wrote: “More details about the bombings of US warplanes hit the Bay region in southern Somalia on Wednesday night. Drones bombed a scooter with two civilians Saturday night, the killed were forced out of Buhodle

Summary

قريب كلية تطبيقية، المواصي, Vicinity of University College of Applied Sciences, Al Mawasi, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Between four and eight people, including up to three children, a woman, and an elderly man, were injured in an alleged Israeli attack that struck the guard room of the University College of Applied Sciences, which was sheltering displaced people in the Al Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on September

Summary

Airstrike, Artillery, Drone Strike

4–8

Impact

شبوة‎, Shabwa province, Shabwa, Yemen

LOCATION

Two to three middle-ranking Al Qaeda affiliates were killed and another was injured due to a US drone strike, originally targeting US-born cleric Anwar al Awlaki in the province of Shabwa in the morning of May 5th, 2011. In one of the first recorded US attack using remotely piloted drones since 2002, during Yemen’s Arab

Summary

2–3

غوط الرمان, Goot Al Roman, Tarabulus, Libya

LOCATION

Up to four civilians were allegedly killed and up to eight more injured by LNA shelling on Tajoura. Libya Alahrar TV said six people were injured. The Libya Observer tweeted: “A foreign worker from Ghana was killed and six others wounded in a rocket attack by warlord Khalifa Haftar’s armed groups on Ghot Alroman area

Summary

1 – 4

(1–2 men)

6–8

كتيان, Kitian, eastern countryside of Idlib, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

During the morning of Sunday, November 26, 2023, a guided missile allegedly fired by Syrian regime forces and/or the Russian military and/or the Iranian military hit a car parked in front of a civilian house, injuring a woman and a child from the same family, in Kitian, in the eastern countryside of Idlib, Syria. Several

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Residential

Russian Military, Iranian Military, Syrian Regime

العين, Loder village, Al Ain, Lawdar district, Abyan, Yemen

LOCATION

On the evening of Wednesday April 11th 2012, an airstrike allegedly by Yemeni forces or US drone strikes which hit a car with suspected Al Qaeda militants killed between two and fourteen militants and injuring between seven and 10 others, near the town of Lawder in the Abyan governorate, an area on a key highway

Summary

US Forces, Yemeni Air Force

2–14

7–10

كفرنايا, Kafr Naya, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

ANF reported that a civilian was injured in the village of Kafr Naya in Aleppo, Syria in alleged Turkish shelling on April 9th, 2020. The civilian is identified as Khaled Oso, aged 42. “The Turkish army and allied mercenaries have carried out an artillery attack on the villages of Sheikh Hilal and Kafr Naya in

Summary

سارمين, Sarmin, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

At approximately noon on Monday, December 25, 2023, an alleged Russian military and/or the Syrian regime and/or Iranian militia missile strike hit a neighbourhood in the city of Sarmin, east of Idlib, hitting a school, a residential building, and the road between the two. The strikes killed a man and injured at least four identified

Summary

4–5

Impact

Russian Military, Iranian Military, Syrian Regime

5 named

جعار, Desert road between Ja'ar and Zinjibar, Abyan, Yemen

LOCATION

On June 7th 2012, there were reports that Yemeni or US warplanes conducted an airstrike against a vehicle carrying suspected Al Qaeda militants on the desert road between Ja’ar and Zinjibar in Abyan province. According to anonymous officials and an anonymous military source speaking to local and international media, three to five of the passengers

Summary

US Forces, Yemeni Air Force

3–5

الكريمية, Al Keramia, Tarabulus, Libya

LOCATION

Two civilians were killed and four more injured, all from the same family, by indiscriminate shelling on the Keramia area of Janzur. Tk Yahroug Kl shy said: “A family has arrived at 4:00 a.m. to the Al-Zawiya Street Hospital after a shell landed on the house in the Keramia area, which resulted in the death

Summary

(1 child1 woman1 man)

2–4

قطاع غزة, the Gaza strip, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On August 1, 2024, the bodies of Muhammad Shafiq Omar Issa, 42 or 43 years old, and Sharaf Yasser Abdel Hamid Abu al-Eish, 29 years old, were identified at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, both of whom were allegedly killed by the Israeli military. Facebook posts by Umm Sami al-Masri and Mohammad Mahmoud included photos of

Summary

Israeli Military

Names matched with MoH IDs

2 named

وادي عبيدة, Wadi Abida, Ma'rib, Yemen

LOCATION

On January 19th 2013, between 7 and 10:30 pm, the first of three alleged US drone strikes in the Wadi Abidah region in al-Hatik in Marib struck an orange farm in the populated Al-Masil area in Al Dsaleel, Ra’ed Fadi Abdullah. There were no reported casualties, civilian or militant but according to eyewitnesses, the strike

Summary

Agriculture

Geolocation

Neighbourhood/area

دير غصن, Deir Ghosn, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), a civilian was killed when allegedly Turkish forces opened fire on farmers in Deir Ghosn in Hasaka, Syria on May 17th, 2020. SANA said that “local sources told SANA’s reporter in Hasaka that at Sunday afternoon, Turkish occupation forces opened fire at farmers working in their fields

Summary

Small arms and light weapons

the village of Bari and Digor (Dokri) residential complex, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Between around 11:00-11:30 PM on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, an alleged Turkish drone strike on the village of Bari and the residential complex Digor (Dokri) in the Shingal District of Iraqi Kurdistan injured a woman named Enstar Khodada Ali Murad in Digor and another civilian in Bari. Roj News reported that the strike on Digor

Summary

Residential

وادي الحيات, Wadi Al Hayat, Al Bayda, Yemen

LOCATION

A US Central Command spokesperson told reporters that a strike had killed two alleged ISIS militants in Bayda governorate on November 12th 2017. This confirmed earlier reports that a US drone strike in the Dhi Kalib area of Qayfa had killed two at noon on that date. Two sources suggested that one of those killed

Summary

1–2

حي الاندلس, Hay Al Andalus, Tarabulus, Libya

LOCATION

Up to seven civilians were allegedly killed and up to twelve injured by indiscrimiante shelling on the Souq Al Talata area of Tripoli. The Field Medicine and Support Center said three were killed and 11 injured. The GNA-led Burkan Al Ghadab operation posted that five were killed and eight injured, one of which a child

Summary

3 – 5

(1 woman2 men)

8–12

Government of National Accord, Libyan National Army

LOCATION

جنوب لبنان, Southern Lebanon, Lebanon

On September 25, 2024, a young man and a former student of Phoenicia University Hussein Abu Zaid was reportedly killed in an attack in southern Lebanon. His alma mater, Phoenicia University in Lebanon, honoured his memory on Facebook, grieving his loss “with deep sorrow and sadness.” A graduate of their electrical and communications engineering program, Hussein

Summary

Hezbollah Forces, Israeli Military

LOCATION

بانص, Banss, Aleppo, Syria

Smart News Agency reported that two civilians were wounded in the explosion of remnants of a cluster bomb from a previous Russian forces and Syrian regime bombing in Banss, 55 km south of Aleppo, Syria on July 4th, 2018. Also @24Aleppo tweeted that “two people were injured due to the explosion of a cluster bombs

Summary

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

درلوك, Deralok, Duhok, Iraq

LOCATION

A father and son were killed and another civilian was injured after an alleged Turkish airstrike near the town of Deraluk, Amedi district, on May 30th, 2020, according to local media reports. The victims were Jalal Nuradin, 60, and his son Ahmed Nuradin, 32, reported K24, Christian Peacemaker Teams and Ahval. Khalil Nerway, a relative

Summary

Turkish Military

2 named, 1 familiy identified

بالقرب من مسجد الخلفاء الراشدين، مخيم جباليا, Vicinity of Al-Khalafa Al-Rashidun Mosque, Jabalia Refugee Camp, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On November 5, 2023, Israeli aircraft allegedly bombed the Abu Shaqfa family’s house opposite the Rashidun Caliphs Mosque in the middle of Jabalia camp, north of Gaza. Two people were reportedly killed with several others injured in the incident. Photographs on social media show an elderly man covered in dust being escorted by two medics

Summary

IDP or Refugee Camp, Mosque, Religious

2–5

الروضة, Al Rawda, Ma'rib, Yemen

LOCATION

At least three alleged AQAP militants were reportedly killed, and another injured, by a US drone strike against a house in Al Rawda, Marib governorate, on the evening of July 22nd 2018. A few social media sources at the time suggested that the strike had instead killed civilians. A later US Central Command statement indicated

Summary

Residential

3–10

أريحا, Ariha, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Between four and five civilians, including up to four children and a woman, were injured and 2 civilians, a child and his father, died as a result of alleged Russian, Syrian or Iranian artillery shellings or air strikes on residential neighborhoods of the city of Ariha in the southern countryside of Idlib on July 14,

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

1 – 2

(1 child1 man)

4–5

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

6 named, 2 families identified

سرمين, Sarmin, Idlib, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

On Sunday evening, September 29, 2024, two men of the same family, Abdulrahman Burhan Sheikh Deep and Marwan Sobhi Sheikh Deep, were killed in an artillery shelling allegedly carried out by Syrian regime forces and/or the Iranian military and/or the Russian military, which hit residential neighborhoods and a commercial store in the town of Sarmin, east of

Summary

Commerce, Residential, Shop

1–2

Russian Military, Syrian Regime, Iranian Military, Hezbollah Forces

2 named, 1 familiy identified

درنة‎, Derna, Darnah, Libya

LOCATION

According to local sources and the Egyptian government, Cairo carried out four ‘retaliatory’ air raids in Derna. Babak Taghvaee reported the Egyptian Air Force had targeted the “al Qaeda affiliated Shura Council” in Derna. The Egyptian Foreign Minister confirmed strikes, reporting it had targeted “terrorist organizations in Derna” – in response to the killing of

Summary

Egyptian Military